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Welcome to the Punpedia entry on beer puns! 🍻 🍺 Whether you need a name for your latest craft brew, a tagline for your beer-related business, a beer pun team name, or just some beer puns for their own sake, I hope you find this entry useful!

There’s a lot of depth to beer culture and so some of the puns in this entry may go over your head if you’re not a brewer or beer fanatic. I’ve tried to order the pun list so that it starts with general beer puns that most people will understand, and then as you go down the puns should get more obscure. That said, I have not done a perfect job of it, so apologies if there are some confusing ones here and there near the top.

A quick side note: Drinking alcohol gives your brain a reward that it didn’t earn. If you drink too often then your brain learns that the best (easiest) way to feel good is to drink more alcohol, rather than do the normal things that make you feel good (work hard, accomplish things, help others, etc.). Be careful messing with your neurotransmitters! 🙂

Beer Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about beer that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

All → Ale: As in “Ale in a day’s work.” and “She went ale out.” and “Ale’s well that ends well” and “It’s ale downhill from here.” and “It’s ale gone pear shaped.” and “It’s ale good.” and “It’s ale grist to the mill.” and “It’s ale me, me, me.” and “Not ale it’s cracked up to be.” and “That’s ale well and good”

Déjà vu → Déjà brew: As in “I’m getting déjà brew – have we been to this pub before?”

Hop: As in “Just a hop, skip and jump.” and “Take 3 hops to the left.” and “Hop to it!” and “Bunny hop” and “Hip hop“

Hope → Hop: As in “I have high hops.” and “A glimmer of hop.” and “Cross your fingers and hop for the best.” and “Keep hop alive.” and “There there’s life, there’s hop.” and “Cross my heart and hop to die.”

Hop*: If a word begins with the “hop” sound (or anything vaguely similar) then there may be an opportunity for a terrible beer pun: “Health, wealth and hoppiness.” and “Life, liberty and the pursuit of hoppiness.” and “As it hoppens” and “Shit hoppens.” and “See what hoppens?” and “Hopatitis is an inflammation of the liver.”

Sign → Stein: As in “Give me a stein, lord!” and “Stein the pledge.” and “Stein up.” and “Stein of the times.” and “A sure stein.” and “A tell tale stein.” (See beer stein)

Sooner → Schooner: As in “Schooner or later.” and “The schooner the better.” and “No schooner said than done.” and “Schooner rather than later.” (A schooner is a type of glass cup.)

Tinkered → Tankard: As in “I tankard with this all day but I couldn’t get it working.” (A tankard is a big drinking vessel)

Sidle → Seidel: As in “I seideled up to her apologetically.”

Picture → Pitcher: As in “A pitcher is worth thousand words.” and “See the big pitcher.” and “Motion pitcher.” and “Do I have to paint you a pitcher?” and “Pitcher perfect” (Pitcher is a synonym of “jug” – commonly used to serve beer.)

Pitcher: There is the potential for a pun here using the baseball meaning of this word.

Cling → Clink: As in “Clink on tight!”

Kink → Clink: As in “C’mon, be honest. Everyone has a clink or two.”

Blink → Clink: As in “In the clink of an eye.” and “Clink and you’ll miss it!”

Suds: This refers to the froth made from soap and water, but is also slang for “beer”. By using it in the original “soap and water” context you could potentially make a pun: “I got in the bath and sudsed up.” (Here we’re using the verb-form of “suds” with means “lather”)

Sides → Suds: As in “There are two suds to every question.” and “You’ve got to see the issue from both suds.”

Plastered: This means “very drunk”, but in the right context we could use its original definition as a pun: “The whole house is plastered.”

Wasted: As in “It’s so sad, seeing all these all wasted lives.” and “Youth is wasted on the young.”

Sloshed: Another one meaning “very drunk” – perhaps an opportunity to make a pun on its literal meaning: “We all sloshed around in the swimming pool for a while.”

Smashed, Hammered, Bombed, Legless, Messed up, Trousered, Trolleyed: Some more terms meaning “very drunk”. Each of them may have contexts in which there’s an opportunity to make a pun on its literal meaning – though these contexts may be quite specific.

Hang over → Hangover: As in “Mind if I hang over at your place this morning?”

Chug: As well as meaning “to drink fast or without pausing”, this term can refer to “The chug of a motor boat” or “The little train chugged up the hill.”

Hug → Chug: As in “Let’s have a group chug.” and “Chug it out.” and “Bro chug.”

Toast: When someone raises their beer in honour of something or someone and encourages everyone to do the same, that’s called a toast. There may be some context in which the other (normal) definition of “toast” could be punned upon.

Tears → Cheers: As in “Bored to cheers.” and “Burst into cheers.” and “Moved to cheers.” and “Reduced to cheers.” and “Fight back the cheers.” and “It will all end in cheers.” and “Blood, sweat and cheers.”

Cheers: This word also has the “the cheers of the crowd were deafening” definition which might be a viable opportunity for a pun in some contexts.

Tippy-toes → Tipsy-toes: As in “I snuck in on my tipsy-toes.”

Cough → Quaff: As in “I was quaffing all night, so I took the day off work.” (A “quaff” is an alcoholic drink and to “quaff” is to drink an alcoholic quickly or heartily)

Lick or → Liquor: As in “Are you going to have a liqu, or?” (Depending on your accent/pronunciation it may more like “lick her”. Please keep your puns respectful!)

Stubby: Refers to a beer bottle that is short and fat. This slang is taken directly from the actual definition of “stubby” so it’s an easy pun if the context is right.

Growler: A “growler” is a type of jug used to transport draft beer. The term has a bunch of other meanings which could be played upon in the right context.

Draught / Draft: Besides the beer-related meaning (beer served from barrel or tank), this term has several others: “He was drafted in 1942″ and “I drafted the letter of resignation.” and “The use of draft horses is outdated and cruel.” and “There was a nice draught coming through the window.” and “She was drafted for the national team at age 23.”

Dear → Beer: As in “Oh beer me” and “Hang on for beer life” and “Near and beer to my heart” and “Elementary, my beer Watson.”

Ear → Beer: As in “Grin from beer to beer.” and “Let’s play it by beer.” and “Lend a beer” and “In one beer and out the other.”

Peer → Beer: As in “Beer pressure” and “It’s like she was beering into my soul.”

Pier → Beer: As in “Take a long walk off a short beer.”

Bear → Beer: As in “Grizzly beer” and “Beer a resemblance” and “The right to beer arms” and “Beer down upon” and “Bear witness to …” and “Beer false witness” and “Beer fruit” and “Beer in mind that …” and “Bring to beer“

Tap: This has at least two beer-related meanings: “to tap a barrel” and “what’s on tap?”. It also has several non-beer related meanings which might be pun opportunities in the right context: “He tapped the window gently.” and “We’ve tapped all his phone calls.”

Head: The “head” is the frothy foam on top of a beer. Potential puns about: “Air head” and “Don’t mess with my head.” and “Above my head” and “Over my head” and “Bite someone’s head off” and “Be it on your head” and “Couldn’t make head or tail of it” and “It’ll do you head in” and “Get it into your head” and “Get your head together” and “Got your head screwed on” and “Hanging over your head” and “You need to get your head examined.” and “Head and shoulders above the rest” and “Head count” and “Head honcho” and “Head in the sand” and “Head to head” and “Hit the nail on the head” and “I could do that standing on my head” and “Head wind” and “Hold a gun to his head” and “In over your head” and “Laugh your head off” and “Level-headed” and “Lose your head” and “Make your head spin” and “Price on his head” and “Pull your head in” and “Sleepy head” and “Upon your head be it”

*eth’ll → *ethyl: “Ethyl” alcohol is the type of alcohol that is in alcoholic beverages like beer. Pun examples: “My brethyl smell really bad if I drink this.” and “At least my dethyl go down in history.”

Tiny → Tinnie / Tinny: As in “The patter of tinny feet.” (“Tinny” is slang for a can of beer)

Krikey! → Krieky!: As in “Krieky! That’s a big croc!”

Coarse / course → Coors: As in “Of coors!” and “Off coors” and “University coors” and “Blown off coors” and “Crash coors” and “In due coors” and “Let nature take its coors” and “On a collision coors” and “Stay on coors” and “He had a coors voice from drinking too much.”

Heinie can → Heineken: As in “Get off your heineken you? We’ve got work to do!” (“Heinie” is slang for bottom)

Scull → Skoll: As in “” and “”

Bud wiser → Budweiser: As in “I’ve got a budweiser than than all you uneducated chumps.”

Wiser → Weiser: As in “None the weiser” and “Older and weiser“

Bud: As in “We’re best buds” and “Nip in the bud“

Too bored → Tuborg: As in “I didn’t stay at the partly long – I was Tuborg.”

Leffe → Left: Note that “Leffe” has two pronunciations. The French pronunciation sounds like “leff” and the Flemish pronunciation sounds like “leffer”. Here we’re punning with the French pronunciation. Examples: “Exist stage Leffe” and “Keep Leffe” and “Leffe for dead” and “Leffe in the lurch” and “Leffe out in the cold” and “Leffe wing” and “Leffe to your own devices” and “Out of Leffe field”

Leave her → Leffe: (Here we’re using the Flemish pronunciation, see above) As in “Leffe alone!” and “Are you going to Leffe anything in your will?”

A lesion → Elysian: As in “What happened to your leg? Is that Elysian?”

A legion → Elysian: As in “She has Elysian of fans following her wherever she goes.”

Stellar → Stella: As in “A Stella cast has been assembled.” and “The pub received Stella ratings in the guides.” (Wikipedia)

Bass: This refers to the famous brewery. If you’re punning with text (rather than speaking it out loud), you can play on the audio-meaning of “bass”: “I like clubs that have good Bass.” but since this has a different pronunciation, the only exact phonetic pun is on the fish of the same name.

Basically → Bassically: As in “I drink Bassically the same thing all the time.”

Millimeter → Millermeter: As in “A millermeter more and it would have been long enough!” We can do the same thing with other units of measurement too: “The can holds 375 millerliters.” and “We just needed one millersecond longer!” and “This cable is rated to 25 millervolts.” and “A millergram of this is enough to kill a person.”

Million → Milleron: As in “Not in a miller-on years.” and “One in a milleron.”

Meantime: As in “In the meantime, we should look for a new place.” (Meantime is a brewery)

Foster: As in “Foster a sense of confidence in the people.” and “A bar owner must Foster a happy, friendly atmosphere.” (Foster’s is a beer company)

Four peeks → Four Peaks: As in “It took me about four peaks to finally read the text.”

Ought → Oat: As in “You oat to say sorry.” and “Five minutes oat to be enough time.”

Its / It’s → Oats / Oat’s: As in “Oat’s just a matter of time.” and “Oat’s a shame.” and “Oat’s nothing personal” and “Oat’s worth oats weight in gold.” and “Takes oats toll.” and “A life of oats own.”

Sore gum → Sorghum: As in “I’ve got sorgums because my toothbrush bristles are too hard.” (Sorghum is a grain crop often used to create alcoholic beverages)

*sip*: If a word contains the “sip” sound, it’s an opportunity for a terrible pun on “sip” as in “to sip your beer” (so long as you emphasise the “sip” part somehow): Mississipi, disiplinarian, munisipality, presipitate, partisiples, presipitated, prinsipally, resipient, resiprocity.

Dry: As in “These tea puns are very dry.” and “Dry humour” and “Hung out to dry” and “Keep your powder dry” and “As dry as dust”

Will → Swill: As in “Against your own swill.” and “Bend to my swill” and “Love swill find a way.” and “Swill do.” and “Where there’s a swill, there’s a way.” and “Time swill tell.”

Back → Bock / Beck: As in “As soon as my bock is turned” and “At the bock of my mind” and “Bock to the Future” and “Bock from the dead” and “Bock in business” and “Bock in the day” and “Bock on your feet” and “He bocked out of the deal” and “Bock to bock” and “Cast your mind bock” and “Get off my bock” and “Fight bock the tears” and “Get bock on your feet” and “Get bock together” and “Hark bock to” and “Kick bock and enjoy” and “Laid bock” and “Money bock guarantee” and “On the bock burner” and “Never look bock” and “One step forward, two steps bock.” and “Put your bock into it!” and “Right bock at ya” and “Turn bock the clock” and “Watch your bock” and “You scratch my bock, I’ll scratch yours.” (Bock is a strong German lager, and the above examples can be replaced with “Beck” to play on the famous Beck’s brewery)

I’m a real oldy → Amarilloldy: As in “Amarillo-ldy when it comes to my taste in beer.”

Citra → Sit ya: As in “Citra ass down!” – The name of a brew from Against the Grain. “Citra” is a variety of hops.

Nugget: As in “Nugget of wisdom” and “Nugget of truth” (Nugget is a hop variety)

Soz → Saaz: As in “Oh saaz! I didn’t mean to!”

Sim card → Simcoed: As in “I lost my phone so I need a new simcoed“

Put her → Porter: As in “Porter down!” and “She porter hand to learning coding in her spare time.”

Fruity: Other than referring to the fruity taste or aroma of a brew, this term also has several slang definitions including being flamboyant or “bouncy”. It may also refer to someone who is considered crazy in some respect.

Noble: As in “That was very noble of you.” and “The four noble truths.” (“Noble hops” are traditionally hops which are low in bitterness and high in aroma, like Saaz)

Great → Gruit: As in “All creatures gruit and small.” and “I went to gruit lengths” and “Gruit minds think alike” and “The gruit outdoors” and “No challenge too gruit.” (Very corny! Gruit is an old-fashined herb mixture used for bittering and flavouring beer)

Asked → Oast: As in “Frequently oast questions” and “No questions oast” and “I took my harp to the party but no one oast me to play.”

Killin’ → Kiln: As in “She’s making a kiln!” and “Stop it, you’re kiln me!”

Nipple → Tipple: A tipple can refer to an alcoholic drink, or as a verb to “drink alcohol, especially habitually”.

After taste → Aftertaste: As in “Aftertasting that beer, I’m not going back for seconds.” (See Wikipedia entry, Aftertaste)

Stupid → Stube-d: As in “Keep it simple, stube-d” and “Terminally stube-d” and “There’s no such thing as a stube-d question.”

Hey for → Hefe: As in “Hefe god’s sake could you cut it out?” (“Hefe” means “yeast” in German and sounds like “hay-fa”)

Goes up → Gose-p: As in “Right before it gose-p in flames.”

Say, son → Saison: As in “Saison, could you fetch me that spanner?”

Worth → Wort: As in “It’s wort it’s weight in gold.” and “For what it’s wort …” and “Get your money’s wort” and “Milk it for all it’s wort” and “Not wort a hill of beans” and “That’s my two cents wort“

Ton / Tonne → Tun: As in “Came down like a tun of bricks.” and “That’s a tun of beer.”

Least → Lees: As in “Last but not lees” and “Lees common denominator” and “Not in the lees” and “Line of lees resistance.”

Law to → Lauter: As in “There should be a lauter prevent people form making terrible beer puns.”

Lautering → Loitering: As in “There’s always a few shady people lautering around there at night.”

Spargin’ → Spare gin: As in “There wasn’t any spargin’ so I happily drank beer instead”

Tanning → Tannin: As in “Welcome to my tannin salon.”

For men t* → Ferment: As in “What we need is fermen to realise that catcalling isn’t friendly.”

Beer-Related Phrases

Common phrases, idioms and cliches which are related to beer can be used for some subtle and witty word play. Here is a list of the beer themed phrases that we’ve found so far:

(h)opposites attract

process of eliminating (h)options

a golden (h)opportunity

once in a lifetime (h)opportunity

window of (h)opportunity

contrary to popular (h)opinion

Adam’s ale

amber nectar

as drunk as a lord

as drunk as a skunk

as mild as milk

barrel of laughs

came to a bitter end

take the bitter with sweet

a bitter pill to swallow

bring out your best (a Bud Light slogan)

crack a tinnie

crack/bust some suds

slam a drink

drink like a fish

driven to drink

drink up

drink someone under the table

full of hops

given to drink

life’s not all beer and skittles

pint sized

on the piss

rolling drunk

six pack

slave to drink

stout fellow

you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make her drink

slam some beers

egg in your beer

small beer

knock one back

social drinker

bottoms up!

here’s to [someone/something]!

drink to excess

drown your sorrows

on a bender

on the rocks

make it a double

down the hatch

hair of the dog

happy hour

liquid courage

pub crawl

another round

two/three/four sheets in the wind

under full sail

under the influence

take the edge off

chin chin! (cheers!)

off their head

roll out the barrel

BYOB

on tap

Dutch courage

sudsing up

beer belly

trouble is brewing

a hop, skip and a jump

hip hop

clouded judgement

get you over a barrel

seperate the wheat from the chaff

barrel of laughs

belt down some liquor

as slow as molasses in january

cakes and ale

eat, drink and be merry

full head of steam

head in the clouds

hit the nail on the head

i’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached

i need it like a hole in the head

in over your head

my head is swimming

off the top of my head

off with his head

put a price on his head

two heads are better than one

keep your head above water

it’s all grist to the mill

walk like a drunken sailor

Beer-Related Words

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